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Old 04-26-2015, 01:07 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by Vito Cruz View Post
While that particular moment didn't make me excited, I think late WCW in general would qualify for me.

My first real exposure to wrestling was watching Nitro in April or so of 1998. And I was hooked. I probably watched Nitro every single week or close to it over the 3 years that followed, right up until the final episode. Yes I'd flip to Raw during commercials. But when Nitro was on, that was what I had on my TV. It never once sunk in to me that the product was horrific in 2000 because I was so young I had no idea about quality of writing, etc.

I was 12 when the company folded. Obviously within a few years I wound up developing more of an understanding of what I like in wrestling and realized just how bad the stuff I was watching was especially in comparison to what WWF was churning out during that same time period.

But it's still an odd source of pride for me that I stuck with my "team" until the end.
Same.

I have this weird memory of this one Nitro in, I think, April 1999, which opened with a "Kendo Stick Match" between Hak and Kendall Windham, and I was such a young mark that'd be a sucker for anything. I was super excited and, at the time as I taped wrestling a lot because it was on so late, I watched that match over and over.

Obviously, it was shite. But 12-year-old me didn't know any better.
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